“Eye vs Head Tracking” in Ball Sports How the Eyes Track the Ball — and What Happens When They Don’t Years ago, I was working with a young student who struggled to make clean contact with the ball. Every so often, she would “zone out” for just a split second—like a computer glitch—and come back just a moment too late. Her father, a prominent neurosurgeon, explained that she had a mild early-childhood form of epilepsy, which she would eventually outgrow. That experience opene